Here's what I am going to post in the forums at www.paypalsucks.com's forums as soon as I can figure out how to register.
I purchased an item over
Ebay for roughly $480. A few weeks later I realized that I did not need the item as I had previously thought and I put the item back up onto
Ebay. The item sold within a day to a guy with 1 positive feedback. He paid instantly, and the next day I shipped it to the address that he specified. I withdraw the funds from my paypal account and put the money into my bank account.
A few weeks later, I get an email saying that there is a chance that the payment of $480 that he gave to me may be reversed. No information was provided as to why this could happen. Naturally, within a few days, I had a balance of something like $464 that I owed Paypal. Again, no information was directly provided to me than "use of unauthorized funds".
I let it sit for a month or two, because as far as I'm concerned I just never use Paypal again and they never get my money. However after one or two months I get a little curious and do a little browsing. I look up the address, and it seems to be an apartment. The address he gave to me on Paypal was "#### Street Name, Suite #G".
I did a little bit of searching on
http://www.reversephonedirectory.com and found a total of 6 different buildings at the specified address. One of the buildings was a UPS Store, and listed a phone number. I went to the UPS website, did a search on the address and the UPS website reported that UPS was in suite G of that address.
So, I gave them a call. I spoke to a woman who told me about a service they provided for a time, back when my item was shipped. If a person were to walk in and provide a photo identification saying that they are going to be expecting a package to be shipped to the UPS store, the UPS store will recieve the package and hold it for you until you go pick it up. There is also a fee for this to happen. The lady told me that at the time they kept no records of who came in for what packages or when.
When I mentioned the guy's name, Kenneth Rethmeier, she said that she vividly remembered the name because the last name stood out. She remembers checking his ID and giving him my package. My package was heavy and about 42x16x8 inches in size, cost nearly $30 to ship.
At about this time I read all about the Buyer Protection Plan. It was also about this time that I realized that he was an "Unverified Buyer". Yes, I had shipped to an "Unverified Buyer".
The woman gave me her apologies and at that time I figured there was nothing I could do, so I just let my account sit in the negative. My account eventually got frozen but I didn't mind because I had my mother's paypal address to pay anyone that I needed.
Well, this morning, about 6 months after the entire ordeal, her account got locked, and when she did the 3 steps to unlock her account, she got an email telling her that her request to be unlocked was denied because she has a relation to one or more accounts with a balance.
Is there anything I can do that does not include paying the $480 that I owe them?
